Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?
On Monday 19 December 2005 09:31, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
>> search [0], I am a bit hesitant to get that combination. Does
>> anyone on the list have any firsthand experience with Barracuda
>> drives on a 3114 controller? What have you encountered?
>
>Bad question. You need to know exactly *WHICH* Barracuda drives you
> are talking about, and which people are talking about when they
> reply to you.
>
>Don't expect 7200.9 Barracudas (SATA 300) to work fine with some
> broken SATA 150 chipsets (such as Intel ICH5/ICH5R). They *may*
> work, or they may fail to work (but at least if it is a 300/150
> issue, it is an all-or-nothing, so no data loss).
>
>7200.8 have NCQ and non-NCQ versions, so you need to know which
> you're dealing with as well.
Ok, so when standing in front of the case at Circuit City comtemplating
the purchase of one of these firebreathers, what are the keywords to
look for on the box so you don't get a super picky one?
>--
> "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to
> bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of
> Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
> Henrique Holschuh
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